I’ve been an admirer of Sinead O’Connor as both a person and musician for my entire adult life. I was so sorry to hear of her untimely death and the only thing I can do to respond to it, to show my respect for her, is to draw her. Rest in power Sinead.
We were drawing distorted selfies in today’s Drawing Faces class. I find that drawing distortion can be freeing because it helps us to draw without worrying so much about likeness, accuracy or flattery, especially when it comes to selfies. This is me reflected in the surface of a metal ball, which creates the curvature.
Celebrating the summer with this portrait of Sulphur from Sktchy.
We drew Wendy, one of my favourite Sktchy muses, with ballpoint pens in my Spark Drawing Faces class yesterday .
This was one of those portraits where I just could not get Vanessa’s likeness. I knew absolutely where I was going wrong but no matter how many times I redrew it i couldn’t get it right. In the end I just decided to go with what I had and see if I could correct it with colour. I couldn’t. Some days it’s a struggle.
It was fun to draw Phil’s great expression and talk about the difficulties of drawing teeth (and leaky Copic markers) in yesterday’s Drawing Faces class.
Ballpoint pen practice.
This is Marty whose photo was posted on the Museum by Sktchy app by Jacob. We’ve been drawing him over the past couple of weeks in my Sketchbook Skool Spark Drawing Faces class using Copic markers and coloured pencils.
For some reason this portrait of Hannah has taken me days to complete. I was away on holiday for a week a couple of weeks ago and returned to technological mayhem with my email down for days, which disrupted my life hugely. And it feels like I’m only just getting now beginning to get back into my work, draw, rest rhythm of life. Anyway I finished it eventually, though I fear I aged Hannah by about 10 years 😂
I started drawing portraits with ballpoint pens in 2020 and I’ve drawn one every few weeks since then. Today I finished my first sketchbook of these drawings almost exactly three years after I started it with this portrait of Jodi from the Museum by Sktchy app. It’s a wonderful sketchbook because I can see how much progress I’ve made over these three years I developing both my skills and my style.
If you’d like to see a flip through of my completed sketchbook you can view it on YouTube here.
drawing faces 